In response to the suit, Dowd filed documents that include the woman's statement and say that Rose admitted that he had sex with the teen but said that it happened after she turned 16 years old in 1975.

In 1989, Rose agreed to permanent ineligibility from baseball amid allegations that he gambled on baseball while playing for and managing the Reds. Two years later, the Baseball Hall of Fame voted to ban all those on the permanently ineligible list from induction.

Last year, Rose appealed directly to baseball's Hall of Fame to restore his eligibility, arguing the lifetime ban he agreed to in 1989 was never intended to keep him out of Cooperstown.

Rose was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame last year. Rose is baseball’s leader in hits (4,256) and games played (2,562) and played for the Reds from 1963 to 1978.